Hello all,
It's interesting to see the discussions about how we capture learning and use social media to develop the community of public engagement with science practitioners. I liked Jo's idea of a "a psci-com hackday where we lock some nerds in a room with wifi, pizza and beverages and see what they can come up with :)" because I'd count myself as a public engagement nerd although sadly not a very technical nerd.
 
Also I think it would be good to develop Isotope? http://isotope.open.ac.uk/ I think it has over 300 members now and has useful functions where public engagement activity instructions / reports can be uploaded, and you can upload individual events and put them on a Googlemap. I am planning to send in an activity template regarding running a science youth parliament later this week (we ran one last week).
 
I haven't been involved with developing Isotope myself, and I understand the project is looking for funding to extend what it can do. Just thought worth bearing in mind.
 
Best wishes
Nicky
 
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Dear All 
 
I thought it might be useful to clarify a couple of points that arose from the discussion about capturing useful information.
 
The psci-com gateway and psci-com list shared a name, an administrator, and their origin (about 12 years ago) in the former Wellcome Trust Information Service, now part of the Wellcome Library - but they are otherwise independent of each other.
 
The psci-com web gateway is no longer being developed, so we couldn't use it to create a shared resource. (It currently remains part of the Intute site at http://www.intute.ac.uk/pscicom/ <http://www.intute.ac.uk/pscicom/> . Funding for Intute has been significantly reduced, from July this year, and no new sites are being added. The Intute site will be maintained for another year, but access is uncertain after July 2011. Please see http://www.intute.ac.uk/faq.html <https://wtoutlook.wellcome.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.intute.ac.uk/faq.html>  for details.) Selected content from the gateway has been added to the Wellcome Library catalogue. 
 
The psci-com mailing list website on Jiscmail (https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=PSCI-COM <https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=PSCI-COM> ) hosts the message archives back to 1998. You can search the archives (with the advanced search option) by search string, subject field, email address and date.
 
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Elizabeth 
 

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